| 练习静物 |
2007-12-27 13:04:52 |
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总是画人脸，现在画画静物。静物一向画得不多。真正画起来发现其实set up 是最难的，怎么处理背景? Composition 方面要多考虑。比起来光画一张脸简单多了,ho ho.
几个习作。 studies.
下面这个是临摹 Jean Chambers 的静物画。
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| Paying the Rent |
2007-12-22 17:46:41 |
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I'm reading this article online about art and making money. It speaks so well on this topic I feel I have to share it. In times when I feel pressed by the need to sell or win a prize, I think this will set me straight.
http://www.sovek.com/speaking/archive/payingrent.htm
--by Charles Sovek
"7 November 2003 — Students often ask my advice about whether or not to become a full time painter. This can be a very dicey topic. On the one hand you are what you do. And if you paint full time, you'll get better and stronger and more expressive with each passing day. Provided, that is, you're painting to please yourself. If, instead, you're fulfilling quotas for a gallery that's short on waterfalls or sweating out a portrait because the sitter wants to appear 10 years younger, life can be very dreary and one's expressive juices tend to stop flowing.
So what's the answer? My best advice is to keep whatever source of income you now have and paint in your spare time. And even if you only have two, one or even part of a day a week to paint, you'll probably be a better artist than if you spent 5 days a week painting landscapes that match other people's living room furniture. But things are seldom as black and white as I'm implying. If you live near water, for example, and enjoy painting boats and harbors and find you're selling quite a few pictures, there's no esthetic harm in being represented by one or even more galleries. The trick is to maintain your personal approach and not let the gallery dictate how and what you paint. This can prove difficult if you have a family, rent, car payments and kids in school and a certain amount of income is required. Here, it's a case-by-case situation and everyone's solution will be different. For an overview, however, try to not "paint for money" so much so that your intuition and spontaneity are lost in the bargain.
Another piece of advice I give to students — and this is particularly applicable to younger, single artists — is to find work that doesn't tax your right brain. I have one student who fixes musical instruments for a living. Another types out lawyer's briefs, still another is a combination fisherman and carpenter. Each of these jobs can pay the rent, but unlike being a business executive or staff therapist at a big hospital, they usually leave some creativity for yourself.
Occasionally I have students in responsible, high stress jobs who take early retirement so they can paint. And every once in a while I get a letter from a student who traded his high paying job for a menial position with regular hours, free evenings and leisurely weekends. The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art.
Personal expressiveness is a delicate thing. But it's all we have to mark our life with individuality. We need to treasure it and painting with unbridled inhibition, no matter how few hours a week, is the only way to catch your particular star."
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This is my latest portrait.
Oil on board, 14 X 11
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| 新画 |
2007-11-07 07:43:17 |
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最近很忙。贴一张新画。
oil on board, 14 X 11
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| 认识色彩 |
2007-08-11 15:53:53 |
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调颜色是画油画的基本功。做这样的练习是在上的第一堂油画课里就做了的。看不同的颜色调合在一起，出来一个新的颜色，很奇妙，也是慢慢，逐步认识色彩的一个过程。这样的练习不仅可以让你看到色彩的组合有多么无穷无尽的组合，同时以后实际画时，需要调配某一种颜色的时候，会大概知道怎么把哪种颜色调出来。其实眼睛看到一种颜色，辨认出来，然后能够在调色板上把它准确地调出来，不是件容易的事。That's what painters spend their whole lifetime working on after all!
曾买了Richard Schmid 的书：Alla Prima-All I know About Painting, 里面就有讲做色彩练习。我照着做过，没有做全。现在重新做一下，也并没有完全按照他的方法。哎，天，其实是个费时费力的差事。他说这个就是要训练你的耐心和毅力。It's meant to be painful! 他的方法是要每个颜色要和白色调和，做出从深到淡五个value 来。我做了三个，也不错啦。用的颜色也没有完全用他的palette, 是我习惯和熟悉的颜色。
黄色系
Hanza Yellow light, a cool yellow, sort of like lemon yellow. Mixed with other colors.
cadmium yellow light
yellow ochre
红色系
cadmium red
Terra rosa
Alizarin crimson
蓝色系
Cerulean blue
Viridian (是绿色，把它归到蓝色系里了）
Ultramarine blue
褐色系
Burnt sienna
Raw umber
Burnt umber
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| 还未完成的。。 |
2007-07-29 17:50:26 |
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Oil on canvas, 24 X 18. After first day.
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| 静物--three pears |
2007-07-29 17:48:57 |
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oil on canvas, 9 X 12
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| Man in hat |
2007-07-25 14:13:51 |
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Oil on canvas panel, 16 X 12
3-hour sketch
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| Man with newspaper |
2007-07-23 16:05:54 |
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Oil on canvas, 20 X 16
Alla prima, 3 hours
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| 静物--Onions and copper pot |
2007-07-21 19:06:28 |
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Oil on board, 16 X 20
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| Old man with white beard |
2007-07-18 17:16:05 |
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Oil on canvas, 20 X 16
Oil on canvas, 16 X 12
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| Beach Sketches |
2007-07-15 10:23:54 |
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Clouds over marsh, oil on canvas board, 8 X 10
An afternoon on the beach, oil on canvas board, 8 X 10
Sunset over Delaware Bay, oil on canvas board, 8 X 10
Sunset over marsh, oil on canvas, 11 X 14
这个看起来比较tacky,有点paint by numbers 的意思，不过是我 first time paint from memory。。。呵呵，算啦就这样了。
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| New York Trip |
2007-07-15 10:07:15 |
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第五大道
Courtyard in the Frick Collection
街头的时装摄影
去看了百老汇的Hair Spray. 这个是电影的广告。等出演时再去看。
还去了Guggenheim Museum. Cool. 大部分是近现代作品。有些印象派和毕加索的画很值得一看。
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| Nude Studies |
2007-07-04 15:55:47 |
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| The Swimming Champion |
2007-07-04 15:49:19 |
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一画精细，时间长就容易画得比较僵。下面的是一个下午画的sketch, 比较生动些。
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| The Fair Maiden |
2007-06-25 18:41:59 |
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Oil on Canvas, 20 X 16
Took a much-needed break from painting, and now I'm back to it. What I'm learning now is classic realism, although I still feel like putting all the colors I like onto the canvas!
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